[kictanet] Cambridge Analytica and the Kenyan Elections

[Eric Mwangi]

This is an interesting development - I was seconded last year to CA during the Ted Cruz campaign and later during Donald's Trump campaign.

And you are right - however it's not only an issue of data present ( which I am not sure it exists) but data collected was real-time and decisions made real time. That type of ecosystem is not easy to create - however am sure they will take the money and run.

Yes irony of ironies even CA's data showed DT was going to loose - 

Regards,
Eric 

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> On 10 May 2017, at 10:29, Grace Mutung'u via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Jubilee has contracted the services of global data mining company Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the August presidential election.
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> http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/10/uhuru-hires-data-firm-behind-trump-brexit-victories_c1557720
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> Do we really have that much data in Kenya for the kind of data mining that Cambridge Analytica allegedly carries out? 
> Interesting times....
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